Background Multidisciplinary collaboration is defined as a collective work involving multiple disciplines and is common in clinical care and research. Our aim was to describe current clinical and ...

Objective To assess the effects of treatment with antitumour necrosis factor (TNF) agents, methotrexate, or other non-biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) on cardiovascular event ...

Some of the articles being published during the severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2 pandemic highlight a link between severe forms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the ...

Objective The antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV) are inflammatory disorders with ANCA autoantibodies recognising either proteinase 3 (PR3-AAV) or myeloperoxidase ...

Objectives To determine whether antecedent sinusitis is associated with incident rheumatic disease. Methods This population-based case–control study included all individuals meeting classification ...

Objectives Extra-articular manifestations (EAMs) are important systemic features of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), which may influence the choice of tumour necrosis factor-inhibitor (TNFi). We ...

Objectives Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a severe extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The objectives of this study were to estimate mortality rate in patients with RA-ILD ...

Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is a subtype of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), and a well-described complication of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA), triggered by disease ...

The novel technique of fluorescence optical imaging (FOI, Xiralite), which is approved in the European Union and the USA for clinical use, has been the object of studies since 2009. Indocyanine ...

Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) represent one of the first lines of defence against invading pathogens and are the most abundant leucocytes in the circulation. Generally described as ...

Objective The aim of this systematic literature review was to provide a comprehensive and exhaustive overview of the use of machine learning (ML) in the clinical care of osteoarthritis (OA). Methods A ...

Objectives Drug withdrawal in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in remission can reduce toxicity, but with the risk of flare which requires close monitoring. We explored the potential of patient-reported ...